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After the Big Salary Dump of 2025, the Minnesota Twins finally started running. The team might have been decimated and terrible, but they finally became fun to watch. I went to StatHead.com to find out where 2025 ranked in comparison to the other teams in the 125-year history of the Washington Senators / Minnesota Twins franchise. Even though the Twins hardly even Read more
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“The Red-Headed League” was the second Sherlock Holmes short story that John Watson shared with the world (the first was “A Scandal in Bohemia”). It is the story of Jabez Wilson, who comes to consult Sherlock Holmes and Watson. Wilson tells them that some weeks before, his young assistant, Vincent Spaulding, had urged him to respond to a newspaper advertisement by Read more
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If I were to paint the short days of winter, I should represent two towering icebergs, approaching each other like promontories, for morning and evening, with cavernous recesses, and a solitary traveller, wrapping his cloak about him and bent forward against a driving storm, just entering the narrow pass. I would paint the light of Read more
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Throwback Thursdays” at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on December 11, 2011. Winter has come to the North Country. Last year by this time we were already buried under snow and had much more still to come. This year there has been just two dustings, Read more
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I have said it before here at ClimbingSky: I love a good Police Procedural. The book I am reviewing here today, Mist-Walker by Barbara Fradkin, fits the bill well. Mist-Walker does a wonderful job of blending the tension of a Police Procedural with the eerie pull of Psychological Suspense. Set in a rugged, fog-shrouded landscape, the novel follows Inspector Michael Green as he’s drawn Read more
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Here is one of finest singer/songwriters I know, and a regular on listening rotation, Courtney Marie Andrews. I first saw her at 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis sometime before Covid and have been following her career since. Here is a link to her Tiny Desk Concert. Enjoy! Read more
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I am a huge fan of Susan Hill’s ghost stories, especially her masterpiece The Woman in Black. I have had her Simon Serrailler Detective Series on my To-Be-Read list for a long time. The only reason I hadn’t started it years ago is because I was “saving” it for the time when I would need a great mystery. Finally, in early November, I caved. Read more
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It has been two years since I last sent something out for publication, and almost three years since my last publication. One of my goals for 2026 is to start sending stuff out again. I am starting with a book-length manuscript of my poems and am asking Sue (my wife) to help me compile it. One thing I think Read more
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Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real. ~ Thomas Merton Read more
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